Leonard writes:
>      Perhaps with a whole lot less trouble, you could have a process that
>      keeps this flat file in memory and when any of your users needs the
>      information, there will be only logical i/o (memory i/o) and not
>      physical i/o (disk i/o).  This statement will give Stan Sieler to jump
>      in with the name of the Nugget that keeps a file in memory, as I do
>      not recall what it is.
 
:)
 
Klondike, now a "tool" instead of a nugget, since it is part of the
one of the Toolboxes from Lund Performance Solutions.
 
With it, and the UDCs, you can say:   freeze filename.group.acct
 
However, if you ever update the file you will want to make sure the changes
get posted do disk (perhaps via FCONTROL 2), or a subsequent
KLONDIKE command of: post filename.group.acct
 
 
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